"I don't know if they can't make up their mind or what the problem is over there. The last time I checked you don't need two client operating systems."

"Who knows what this thing is? To me the Chrome OS thing is highly interesting -- it won't happen for a year and a half and they already announced an operating system (Android)."

"Windows is the operating system for the job." He said that half the time people are on their PC, they are working on something that's not in the browser.

Ballmer, of course, knows what Google is up to. He knows that lo-fi netbooks don't need a full version of Windows, and that Microsoft is going to have to refine its strategy there. (For now, they're going with a less-expensive, "starter" version of Windows 7.)